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  1. Comment on UK police blame Android for “record number” of false emergency calls in ~tech

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    Yeah, similar things have happened to Apple several times as well. It’s tricky to balance a trigger that can be done in an emergency and also make it less likely to happen accidentally.

    Yeah, similar things have happened to Apple several times as well. It’s tricky to balance a trigger that can be done in an emergency and also make it less likely to happen accidentally.

    14 votes

  2. Comment on Phasing out passwords: Apple to automatically assign each user a Passkey in ~tech

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    This sounds kind of neat but will it actually help increase adoption of passkeys over passwords for sites besides Apple.com?

    This sounds kind of neat but will it actually help increase adoption of passkeys over passwords for sites besides Apple.com?

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Any RSS feed recommendations that aren't news? in ~tech

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    Exactly, I was expecting the one hour wait time.

    Exactly, I was expecting the one hour wait time.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Any RSS feed recommendations that aren't news? in ~tech

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    Alright, update time. It grabbed new posts after an hour. In this case there were 7 new posts to all of tildes in that hour. I'm using Inoreader as my RSS reader. I am also using their paid Pro...

    Alright, update time. It grabbed new posts after an hour. In this case there were 7 new posts to all of tildes in that hour.

    I'm using Inoreader as my RSS reader. I am also using their paid Pro tier but I don't think that would change anything in this case. What RSS reader do you use?

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Any RSS feed recommendations that aren't news? in ~tech

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    I'm gonna add https://tildes.net/topics.atom?order=new to my reader. I'll update if I see new posts coming in.

    I'm gonna add https://tildes.net/topics.atom?order=new to my reader. I'll update if I see new posts coming in.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Any RSS feed recommendations that aren't news? in ~tech

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    It looks like Tildes uses Atom feeds. I couldn't find anything in the docs but I played with it a bit and it looks like this is a format. If you look at the URL for a top level group, it might...

    It looks like Tildes uses Atom feeds. I couldn't find anything in the docs but I played with it a bit and it looks like this is a format.

    If you look at the URL for a top level group, it might look like this https://tildes.net/~arts the atom feed just adds /topics.atom to the end of it, https://tildes.net/~arts/topics.atom.

    Now for tags it's a little different. You add the tags as a search, after the .atom so https://tildes.net/~arts?tag=art.generative is the normal URL for the tag arts.generative and https://tildes.net/~arts/topics.atom?tag=art.generative is the Atom feed URL you would put in your RSS reader.

    Is that what you have been using? I only just played with this today so I don't know if it has problems updating or anything. my RSS reader reads some of these URLs back to 50 posts and had new posts from just a few minutes ago as well.

    11 votes

  8. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~books

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    For audio books you can make them yourself, sort of. https://speechify.com/ I don’t know where the line is between free and paid tiers but you can upload epubs that you get from places like...

    For audio books you can make them yourself, sort of. https://speechify.com/

    I don’t know where the line is between free and paid tiers but you can upload epubs that you get from places like project Gutenberg or Standard Ebooks and make audio books out of them.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Hubble Network wants to connect a billion devices with space-based Bluetooth network in ~tech

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    So it’s one way, device-to-satellite right? That does seem interesting. You could track things with very low power usage on the device side.

    So it’s one way, device-to-satellite right? That does seem interesting. You could track things with very low power usage on the device side.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on What is your most used piece of kitchen equipment / what surprised you in its usefulness? in ~food

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    We got an air fryer/ toaster oven that’s really just a small convection oven and it works great. We use it everyday. It’s on the big end for these things, it could fit a whole pie plate for instance.

    We got an air fryer/ toaster oven that’s really just a small convection oven and it works great. We use it everyday. It’s on the big end for these things, it could fit a whole pie plate for instance.

    8 votes

  11. Comment on 3 Body Problem | Official teaser in ~tv

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    I’ve never read the books so I don’t know if any of that’s accurate but I’m interested. It looks really cool!

    I’ve never read the books so I don’t know if any of that’s accurate but I’m interested. It looks really cool!

    3 votes